| From: | Brett McCormick <brett(at)work(dot)chicken(dot)org> |
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| To: | jwieck(at)debis(dot)com (Jan Wieck) |
| Cc: | ocie(at)paracel(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pl/{perl,pgsql} (was Re: AW: [HACKERS] triggers, views and ru |
| Date: | 1998-02-23 21:22:30 |
| Message-ID: | 199802232122.NAA23587@abraxas.scene.com |
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I must chime in and agree strongly, but I also have a query: do the
pointers for HeapStruct (and related form struct) ever have to be
re-initialized using the cache lookup functions?
On Mon, 23 February 1998, at 21:49:48, Jan Wieck wrote:
> Direct file access from inside a backends function is IMHO
> never a good thing. This is the job of an application
> program, because the actually accessed file might be on an
> NFS filesystem, this can hang and the database backend will
> hang inside of a transaction where maybe even the DBA or root
> cannot kill them (process is blocked inside a system call).
>
> This is IMHO a NONO.
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